2004

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.-SBC Communications Inc. reported a deal a the City of Palm Springs and Q3 Telecom to launch SBC FreedomLink Wi-Fi service at the Palm Springs International Airport. The …

BOSTON-Mobile applications developer Interspot released its InterSMS technology, which allows users to create their own short message service mobile marketing campaigns or instantly communicate via text messaging. “With the introduction …

MONTREAL-DataWind Corp. released its new PocketSurfer wireless Internet device, a unique offering that allows users to view full-sized Web pages by connecting their PocketSurfer device to a wireless data-capable mobile …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has distributed 200 million warrants to buy shares of the same amount at $2.75 as part of a shareowner and related class-action lawsuit …

Vodafone Group plc announced it will team with Boeing on a trial of high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi service beginning later this month. The agreement is one of the first between Connexion …

Internet portal Yahoo! Inc. acquired startup Wuf Networks for an undisclosed sum, the company said. The acquisition is somewhat shrouded in mystery. Wuf was founded last year and has no …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Wireless broadband company Alvarion Ltd. announced it completed its $40 million acquisition of wireless base station company InterWAVE Communications International Ltd. The closing ends a somewhat tenuous relationship …

TOKYO-NEC Corp. received an order for its messaging intelligent routers multimedia message service system from Telefonica Moviles Espana. NEC said the system can be added to the existing MMS and …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has been selected by MTN South Africa to supply a W-CDMA network. The value of the contract was not disclosed. MTN’s 3G subscribers will be able to …

HONG KONG-The Mobile Media Company AS and Viva la Mobile announced a partnership to provide third-generation multiplayer games to wireless carriers worldwide. Viva la Mobile, an Australia-based mobile-game developer, will …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Mobile Operandi Communications Corp. released its mophone version 3.0, a free entertainment content service for mobile-phone users. Mophone gives multimedia-capable mobile-phone users personal Web pages and storage areas …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here rejected the latest challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s radio frequency radiation standard for mobile phones and base stations. In 2001, the EMR Network-pointing to …

MONTREAL-TeliPhone Inc., a subsidiary of United American Corp., said it has launched a dual-mode service combining its Voice over Internet Protocol platform with GSM technology. The service, which uses TeliPhone’s …

SECAUCUS, N.J.-Matsushita Electric Corp. of America, the North American headquarters of Osaka, Japan-based Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., announced it will drop its Japanese name in favor of its better …

SAIPAN-A variety of business and personal users in Europe, the United States and Asia have registered .mp domain names during open registration for dotMP, which began Dec. 1, according to …

WASHINGTON-Literally minutes before the Senate left town for the year, it passed a troika of important wireless bills-spectrum relocation, enhanced 911 grants and universal service. The package now goes to …

Less than two months after Cingular Wireless L.L.C. garnered governmental approval for its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., creating the nation’s largest wireless operator, a Wall Street …

MONTREAL-Wireless publisher Airborne Entertainment announced Wednesday that it has acquired mobile developer Cellus USA Inc. Airborne, which develops and distributes games, messaging services, ringtones and graphics, said the acquisition will …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint will sell two new Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. phones-devices that feature push-to-talk capabilities and integrated digital cameras-for the critical holiday shopping season. Samsung’s RL-A760 features support for …

BEIJING-Following on its first wireless contract in the United States earlier this week, Chinese infrastructure company Huawei Technologies has been selected by Dutch mobile operator Telfort to deliver and install …

MIAMI-Nextel Communications Inc. and Research in Motion Ltd. will offer tools to encourage developers to create location-based services offerings on the BlackBerry platform, the companies announced Thursday. RIM and Nextel …

Two Chinese companies advanced their strategies for the third-generation homegrown protocol, TD-SCDMA, as the country prepares for a commercial launch of the technology by mid-2005. Chongqing Chongyou Information Technology Co. …

GENEVA-Mobile-phone subscribers around the globe totaled nearly 1.5 billion by the middle of this year. The number of subscribers has doubled since 2000, according to new numbers from the International …

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.-Motient Communications Inc. released its new iMotient Solutions product, which the company said represents a major new step by combining GPRS, 1xRTT and Motient’s DataTAC networks for corporate customers. …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said its patent-holding subsidiaries have entered into a license agreement with Option NV, which provides second- and third-generation as well as 802 technology products. …